America Quote by Malcolm X

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't…

— Malcolm X

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

— Malcolm X

I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at…

— Malcolm X

“It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for…

— Josh Alan Friedman

“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Are you an American? No, I am not an American. I am the American.”

— Mark Twain

“In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe…

— Bridget Asher

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

— Genesis Rodriguez

I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I…

— Mitski

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

— John F. Kennedy

“If somebody were to ask me what it means to me to be American, I'd respond, "It's like eating scrambled eggplant with a dozen…

— Jarod Kintz